{"id":1058,"date":"2005-06-24T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:31:03","slug":"once-upon-a-time-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

…a man fell in love with me<\/span>
<\/span><\/strong>because I knew the words
to this sea shanty <\/span>
<\/span><\/strong>we were together for 3 years
in retrospect
it speaks volumes
about my love life~<\/strong><\/span>
<\/span>
BARRETT’S PRIVATEERS – Stan Rogers<\/span><\/strong>
<\/span><\/strong>
Oh, the year was 1778, <\/span>
HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!<\/span>
A letter of marque come from the king,<\/span>
To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen, <\/span><\/p>\n

CHORUS:<\/span>
God damn them all!<\/span>
I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold<\/span>
We’d fire no guns-shed no tears<\/span>
Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier<\/span>
The last of Barrett’s Privateers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, <\/span>
HOW I WISH I WAS . . .<\/span>
For twenty brave men all fishermen who<\/span>
would make for him the Antelope’s crew<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/p>\n

The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,<\/span>
She’d a list to the port and and her sails in rags <\/span>
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/p>\n

On the King’s birthday we put to sea, <\/span>
We were 91 days to Montego Bay<\/span>
Pumping like madmen all the way<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/p>\n

On the 96th day we sailed again,<\/span>
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight<\/span>
With our cracked four pounders we made to fight<\/span>
<\/span>
<\/span>(chorus)
The Yankee lay low down with gold,<\/span>
She was broad and fat and loose in the stays<\/span>
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/p>\n

Then at length we stood two cables away,<\/span>
Our cracked four pounders made an awful din<\/span>
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/p>\n

The Antelope shook and pitched on her side,<\/span>
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs<\/span>
And the Maintruck carried off both me legs<\/span>
(chorus)<\/span>
<\/span>
So here I lay in my 23rd year,<\/span><\/span>
It’s been 6 years since we sailed away<\/span>
And I just made Halifax yesterday<\/span>
(chorus) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…a man fell in love with mebecause I knew the wordsto this sea shanty we were together for 3 yearsin retrospectit speaks volumesabout my love life~BARRETT’S PRIVATEERS – Stan RogersOh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}